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...sport where burnout nips at each athlete's heel, Harvard tried to take full advantage of its four month break...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, | Title: W. Tennis Starts Season Today | 9/27/1996 | See Source »

Captain Caitlin Hurley will also be counted on, as will junior Margaret Angell, sophomore Sarah Ellis and senior Jessica Mikszewski, who missed last season due to an Achilles Heel injury...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Women's Harriers Look Good; Men Untested | 9/13/1996 | See Source »

Captain Caitlin Hurley will also be counted on, as will junior Margaret Angell, sophomore Sarah Ellis and senior Jessica Mikszewski, who missed last season due to an Achilles Heel injury...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Women's Harriers Look Good; Men Untested | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...American public at once enamored of Bob Dole's character and integrity and at the same time casting their future vote for President Clinton. Bob Dole's honesty, the moral fortitude he has cultivated through his many years of service to this country, has now become his Achilles heel. Every man has his fault, and honesty is Bob Dole...

Author: By Riad M. Abrahams, | Title: Trading Substance For Style | 7/16/1996 | See Source »

...power is clout, like the thud of an iron heel. Influence is sway, like being rocked in a hammock. But like the grass in Carl Sandburg's poem, influence has a way of spreading until it overwhelms every bump in its path. Leonid Brezhnev had power. Andrei Sakharov had influence. Power: the FCC. Influence: Howard Stern. What this means is that influence generally gets the last laugh. Alexander Hamilton never attained the presidency. His philosophical antagonist Thomas Jefferson did. But the world has gone Hamilton's way. By most measures, the country we live in today more closely resembles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOU'VE READ ABOUT WHO'S INFLUENTIAL, BUT WHO HAS THE POWER? | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

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